Sauro Succi – Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia at la Sapienza
Wednesday, October 30th, 10:45AM EDT
Carleman approach to the quantum simulation of fluids
In the last few years, significant work has been devoted to the exploration of the potential of quantum computing for classical physics problems, most notably fluid turbulence. This is a challenge on top of a challenge because unlike quantum mechanics, the physics of fluids is typically neither linear nor conservative. After a brief introduction to the quantum simulation of fluids in general, we shall focus on a specific technique known as Carleman linearization, as applied to three distinct formulations of the physics of fluids, namely the Navier-Stokes equations, the Lattice Boltzmann method and Grad generalized hydrodynamics. The merits and pitfalls of the corresponding quantum algorithms and their concrete quantum circuit implementation will be discussed and commented on.